Speech Quotes

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.